In today's globalized world, a modern person who wants to build an international career and stay on the right step with the modern world, needs to have a large range of knowledge about different norms of behavior and communication. Intercultural communication is a very important factor in life of a modern individual. People must adapt to changes and learn how to respect and accept cultures different from their own. The media, whose information people consume on daily basis in order to stay informed and keep in touch with the world, play a very important role in their lives creating an open mind and accepting attitude toward different cultures. Therefore, the media should have one of the major roles in improving the development of interculturalism. They should create an informative, truthful and non-biased content for the public, because they are most important creators of opinions and attitudes. The purpose of this paper was to research the levels of intercultural competence of students of Zagreb and students of Melbourne. The purpose of this paper was also to determine the degree of openness, knowledge and acceptance of other cultures. The method of implementation of the researching part was in a form of an anonymous questionnaire which was sent to the students of bot cities. The first part of the questionnaire was about biographic data, while the second part was about dimensions of intercultural competence. Furthermore, answering the questions an examinee could calculate themselves the dimensions in which they belong to (openness, acceptance, knowledge). The questionnaire was answered by 140 students in total, from which 70 were from Zagreb and 70 were from Melbourne. The results of the research have shown that respondents of both cities have a mostly moderate to moderately high level of intercultural competence. There were also certain gender differences where women showed a higher level of openness, while men achieved a higher level of acceptance of other cultures.